Antropologicheskij forum, 2018, no. 37

A Review of SERGEY OUSHAKINE, ALEXEY GOLUBEV (EDS.), XX VEK: PISMA VOYNY. ANTOLOGIYA VOENNOY KORRESPONDENTSII [20TH CENTURY: WAR LETTERS. ANTHOLOGY OF WAR CORRESPONDENCE]. Moscow: Novoe literaturnoe obozrenie, 2016, 832 pp.

Fyodor Nicolai
Minin University
1 Ulyanova Str., Nizhny Novgorod, Russia
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Abstract: The review is devoted to the anthology of war correspondence XX Century: Letters of War published under the editorship of Sergey Oushakine and Alexey Golubev and including both letters of Russian / Soviet soldiers and officers (from the Boer War to the conflict in the North Caucasus) and analytical articles that deal with the problems of front-line everyday life. The theoretical concept of the authors and editors of the collection is trying to combine the structural analysis of the epistolary narrative and the phenomenological description of the tactics of subjectivation of war experience.

Keywords: war letters, narrative, cultural memory, affect, theory of practices, tactics of subjectivation.

To cite: Nicolai F., ‘A Review of Sergey Oushakine, Alexey Golubev (eds.), XX vek: pisma voyny. Antologiya voennoy korrespondentsii [20th Century: War Letters. Anthology of War Correspondence]. Moscow: Novoe literaturnoe obozrenie, 2016, 832 pp.’, Antropologicheskij forum, 2018, no. 37, pp. 233–243.

doi: 10.31250/1815-8870-2018-14-37-233-243

URL: http://anthropologie.kunstkamera.ru/files/pdf/037/nicolai.pdf